Come join us on January 20, 2022, for our official launch and special #GameChangersP1 event. Register for this event on Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pure-1-launch-changing-the-game-live-tickets-242593954047 Event Overview: Over the last...
After a decade of efforts that sharply reduced inmate populations, California is closing prisons. One town high in the Sierra Nevada whose economy is built on incarceration is waging a legal battle to keep a prison open. Susanville, Calif., is poised to lose a...
Census data show incarceration rates are down. It may have more to do with the pandemic than broad reforms. Nearly two million adults were incarcerated across the country, according to the 2020 Decennial Census. Each circle represents the incarcerated population in a...
Reducing incarceration is one of the few public policy initiatives where Louisiana’s Republicans and Democrats agree, and have worked in concert for a decade now. Louisiana often leads the nation in incarceration, slipping occasionally to second place. But we...
‘I’ll never leave your side’: his father’s letters helped him endure 19 years in prison Shaka Senghor, a leading voice on criminal justice reform, in 2016. Photograph: Joshua Bright/The Guardian In his second book, Shaka Senghor wants his collection of letters to...